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I am researching my fathers family Blach and Benham and my mothers Daley and Barmore. Their ancestors were called Stott based in and around Lancashire. Worsley. Anything on this name or any useful info Thanks Cat
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Stott
English: metonymic occupational name for a cattleman, from Middle English stott ‘steer’, ‘bullock’. The term was also occasionally used in Middle English of a horse or of a heifer (and so as a term of abuse for a woman), and these senses may also lie behind some examples of the surname.
From ...http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/fact.aspx?&fid=10&fn=&ln=Stott
But I'd also add on my own that it may be related to Stuttgart ... which means "Stud" + "farm" (gard=garden=farm in many Germanic languages). So instead of a possible relation to an abused women, which I think never made the basis for a surname, your ancestors were likely cattle breeders or studs in their own right ...your story, tell it how you like ...
English: metonymic occupational name for a cattleman, from Middle English stott ‘steer’, ‘bullock’. The term was also occasionally used in Middle English of a horse or of a heifer (and so as a term of abuse for a woman), and these senses may also lie behind some examples of the surname.
From ...http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/fact.aspx?&fid=10&fn=&ln=Stott
But I'd also add on my own that it may be related to Stuttgart ... which means "Stud" + "farm" (gard=garden=farm in many Germanic languages). So instead of a possible relation to an abused women, which I think never made the basis for a surname, your ancestors were likely cattle breeders or studs in their own right ...your story, tell it how you like ...
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